UConn’t Beat Our Illini - Elite 8 - 5:09

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« Reply #255 on: March 31, 2024, 10:41:21 PM »

Quote from: ThePAMan on March 31, 2024, 01:29:34 PM

Wonder why they were bricking layups... Hmmmmm

Because they were pressing.

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Re: UConn’t Beat Our Illini - Elite 8 - 5:09 - TBS

« Reply #256 on: March 31, 2024, 11:10:36 PM »

Quote from: Tempo34 on March 31, 2024, 10:41:21 PM

Because they were pressing.

Yep. We looked sped up and uncomfortable from the tip. The threes Coleman was taking from the top of the key he always makes I could tell weren’t going in before they even left his hand because his entire rhythm was off.

Airballing layups. Missing free shots. Throwing the ball damn near over the backboard with wild shots. Going right at a guy who was taking our lunch money left and right and refusing to make adjustments.

Fought back and made it a game at half then inexplicably came out of the break with Rodgers on the floor again which allowed Clingan to clog the lane. Two minutes or so later we were cooked.

You absolutely cannot have a 6’7” guy who won’t even look at the basket running the point against a team like UConn. They didn’t even guard him unless he got inside 10’ and even when he did get to the rim I think he missed them all.

TSJ a total no-show, Castle matched up with him physically and with Clingan camping in the lane and no real motion going on for him when Clingan was out, he was fucked.

Even with all that said, the offense managed to get a TON of open looks, but we didn’t take a lot of them, and missed most of the ones we did. For as old as this team was, I wasn’t expecting them to wither under the bright lights the way they did.

Sucks, but still overperformed expectations for the season, scored a TOTTM banner, made second weekend, overperformed our seed for once in getting to an E8, and was one of the best 5-6 seasons Illinois basketball has had since the tourney expanded in 1975.

Was a fun ride this year and I’ll always wonder what could have been if we didn’t have the entire mid season TSJ debacle. If the team had continued to grow together rather than going through that train wreck, who knows what our ceiling would have been?

This run will give the program some ammo and NIL money to go out and reload. On the whole, it’s definitely a big step forward for the Underwood era and something to build on. I have thoroughly enjoyed being nationally relevant again.

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Re: UConn’t Beat Our Illini - Elite 8 - 5:09 - TBS

« Reply #257 on: April 01, 2024, 07:16:07 AM »

Quote from: Tempo34 on March 31, 2024, 10:41:21 PM

Because they were pressing.

The 7 foot guy had nothing to do with it....even Larry David, it appears, thought the game plan was idiotic.

https://brobible.com/sports/article/uconn-basketball-clingan-larry-david-brad-underwood-block/

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Re: UConn’t Beat Our Illini - Elite 8 - 5:09 - TBS

« Reply #258 on: April 01, 2024, 07:31:15 AM »

Of course, but at some point you still have to make layups. And he was in their heads. And sooner rather than later, they were in their own heads.

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Re: UConn’t Beat Our Illini - Elite 8 - 5:09 - TBS

« Reply #259 on: April 01, 2024, 10:56:39 AM »

Still in disbelief we gave up a 30-0 run. Not going to live that one down so soon.

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« Reply #260 on: April 01, 2024, 12:16:43 PM »

Well, staff has taken a lot of grief over the way they lost, but this was only the 5th EE in 40 years, and maybe the least talented or likely group of those five to do it.
Will just chalk it up to these players and coaches got overwhelmed in the moment against a lot better team. It happens in sports at all levels.
None of the players or staff had any real deep tourney NCAA experience to draw upon. Staff will adjust better and prep better moving forward.

They developed well in late season, and beat a strong #2 seed to get there so all credit to them.

On to the rebuild/reload and hopefully we have more nice runs in the future.

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Re: UConn’t Beat Our Illini - Elite 8 - 5:09 - TBS

« Reply #261 on: April 01, 2024, 12:26:04 PM »

Quote from: Tempo34 on April 01, 2024, 07:31:15 AM

Of course, but at some point you still have to make layups. And he was in their heads. And sooner rather than later, they were in their own heads.

The free shot shooting started collapsing against Iowa State and just continued through Saturday. The second half against Iowa State was shaky (granted made big plays at the end) and that seemed to continue into Saturday. Just odd how this all went down.

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Re: UConn’t Beat Our Illini - Elite 8 - 5:09 - TBS

« Reply #262 on: April 01, 2024, 12:30:46 PM »

I don't blame the staff one bit against UCONN, the staff identified a glaring problem in Clingon, and tried to get him in foul trouble.

Could they have adjusted in the 2nd half and went more towards 3's earlier or back cuts/picks etc, maybe but they didn't. BU probably thought we would start getting some of the calls while initiating, we didn't and then we did shoot 3's we were cold and probably a little dejected in how the game was turning out.

FREE THROW shooting has got to improve across the board though.

Lack of experience across the board, playing defending champs (only 2 teams hadn't been beaten by more than 30-both B1G ten teams), they could have but didn't, and UCONN was just a better team. Simple, lick your wounds, relish the Elite year that was had, recruit in the portal, and start building Who got NEXT team for another run.

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